Inflation and Reheating through an Independent Affine Connection
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2023-11-07 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
This paper is based on a talk in which I discussed how a component of the dynamical affine connection, that is independent of the metric, can drive inflation in agreement with observations. This provides a geometrical origin for the inflaton. I also illustrated how the decays of this field, which has spin 0 and odd parity, into Higgs bosons can reheat the universe to a sufficiently high temperature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2311.02902,
title = {Inflation and Reheating through an Independent Affine Connection},
author = {Alberto Salvio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.02902},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures; contribution to the proceedings of the XI International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2022)